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Show l aiog aojg X juioj ai j as to whether I rememcently Offer Quality Merchandise At Reasonable Rates if any Indians did at any ber time plant or raise any grains on land in the OJd Field, he wrote: Along with other boys from Bear River City I was asked to help cut and shuck the corn on a field the Indians were compelled to abandon. I do not reContinued From Preceding Page member what other crops they I their newly-duirrigation sys- had in that vicinity, but . . tem with their Lamanite breth- remember the corn for one rearen. as the Book of Mormon call- son in particular; After a few ed Indians. iHe had adapted the days work of that kind I had Shoshone tribal government to. very sore and blistered hands. the purpose of a cooperative No doubt the other boys, were farm, and that summer he had they now still living, could say proudly watched his children, the same. If the Indians had not been' as he called them in his diary, driven away from their crops, join the whites in commemorating Brigham Ydungs arrival in perhaps the sore hands would have been those of Amman Utah. Mow he could only record that Ammon, now 84, is one of Chief Sagwitch one of the great four living Indians who were there. As it is, he remembers: Chief Washakies lieutenants had stapped forward and deI was about 10 year old. I manded eloquently to know belong to Shosshone tribe from what he had stolen, whom he Wind River in Wyoming. I was had killed, what meanness he baptized by George W. Hill we had committed, that the soldiers call him Pombi in Bear River should come to drive him away at Horseshoe Bend between Bear from his crops. Sagwitch, from River City and Elwood. It was whose mind Hill had tried to year 1875. Indians there from erase bloody memories of the Wyoming, Idaho, Bannocks frightful Battle Creek massacre and Nevada. Soldiers came, so near Preston in 1865. Next day, Indians go back to their own Charles Keller Shows A Customer A Suit At Blocks with Hill's reluctant agreement, country. . . . who deal in mens clothing for dress and work, shoes and all of the furnishings. the Indians had gone, he reportThe others in Washakie who The company was originally founded in May 5, 1937, by Nate Block. Every employee ed, and a man styling himself remember it also remember States Marshal, with three or them. They are a in the store is a stockholder and owns his own home in Brigham City. Manager of the four others from Corinne, rode man,baptizing firm is Charles Keller. Purdasha, and two wointo the Indian camp and stole men, Kippe and Rachel. Corinne, once a city of 20,000 everything to which they took Ammon, A new leader, Lowell Cutler, by Missionfancy. One of the first attempts ary Hill from the Book of Mor- has been called to Washakie re- . . . Bear River City barely reto help Western Indians live mon, is a spare, wiry old man, cently to help the Indians get members that it was the first by American economics was fin- with the look of a brave about the most from their land and Mormon town to ally with the ished. him still. Lean and alert, he thdir religion. 'Hes the sixth, Indians. But the crops the Indians had closely resembles pictures of counting It was a long time ago about Hill. Twenty miles planted werent finished by the Shoshone Chief Washakie, after down Highway 91, Corinne as the year somebody officially nosoldiers, and this, of course, is whom the Bear River Valley In- Mormon as most any town now ticed there werent any buffalo where an Moroni dians named the village Hill dozes behind a left on the plains, in fact. Mortensen entered the story. Re- and others finaly got them set- historic-plac- comfortably marker of the Blocks, a mens clothing store plying to a friends letter re tled in. Phone your news to 727. variety: located at 60 South Main, Brigham City, listed the policy of their companjf as furnishing quality merchandise at the lowest possible prices with courteous service at all times. Present proprietor of the store is Nate Block and associates. The firm was founded May 5, 1937, by Mr. Block and it offers mens clothing for dress and work as well as shoes and furo season of smart nishings. Manager of the store is Charles Keller who is assisted by occasions a coat by Jarvis (Pete) Koford, assistant manager and head of the clothing department. Mr. J. H. Blaylock was the first manager of Block's and managed the store until 1948. Mr. Koford has been serving the needs of Box Elder county in this same location for 20 years as the Hub and Blocks. According to Mr. Kellr, every employee in the store is a stockholder and owns his own home in Brigham City. The group also has stock in seven other stores in their organization: Block's in Pocatello, Blackfoot, Rigby, St. Anthony and Preston, Idaho, and Bozeman, Montana. The home store is operated on a profit sharing basis, Mr. Keller said. Missionary Work Among Indians Ruined By Rumor - Pub-ige- i En-g- a Blocks Furnish QualityMens - e Clothing Here . y Keyed to your many activities, your happy, life. A coat you'll dress up in at night, all but live in by day . . wear with fashionable confidence wherever you go. In all wool Venetian broadcloth with a pointed yoke, sweeping lines . . . full, tightly cuffed sleeves and a round standup collar. Sizes 9 to 15. on-the-- Advertised in full color in SEVENTEEN Exclusively Ours ; Men Wise Shoppers, Grocer Concludes MINNEAPOLIS CUP) Men are better at buying groceries than women, according to a man who has been in the business for 35 years. "Whats more, men get a kick out of shopping, says James Schilling, Minneapolis grocer. Women have a tendency to get in a rut and order the same old thing. Men like variety." Schilling observed that the idea is responsible for attracting more men to the grocery stores. Some of them are forced to do the shopping because they have wives who work. Its the best thing that could happen, Schilling said. In the old days a man shied away from buying victuals. Now, hes not only interested in picking out what he wants to eat but also in finding out how far his food dollar goes. , Schilling is busy planning the international food ibaw to be produced by the Minneapolis Retail Grocers Association in September . self-servic- e . Illild aij Sciop BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH - i |